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1170990

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date	15/01/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department complies with the requirement set out in section 3.1.8 of the Civil Service Management Code that time off with pay for safety representatives will not be set against facility time allowed under existing arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	3817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>DFID, like all Government Departments, has an obligation to provide reasonable paid time off to recognised trade union representatives to undertake trade union duties. This includes paid time off for safety representatives, as set out in section 3.1.8 of the Civil Service Management Code.</p><p> </p><p>In line with this legislative obligation, set out in the Trade Union Act (2016), information relating to facility time for relevant union officials is published annually, with facility time defined by that Act as including time off taken by a relevant union official that is permitted by the official’s employer (including where this arises under “regulations made under section 2(4) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974”).</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 22/01/2020 12:55:55 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1170479

registered interest
date	13/01/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department would receive an increase in their salary in the event that their hourly pay rate was (a) £8.72, (b) £9.30 and (c) £10.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	2498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>All DFID staff are paid at an hourly rate above £10, and therefore would not require a salary increase in any of these scenarios.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 20/01/2020 09:52:59 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1170489

registered interest
date	13/01/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the increase in the National Living wage announced by the Government on 31 December 2019, what discussions he is having with private sector companies undertaking facility management work for his Department to ensure that the cost of wage increases for their employees are not passed on to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	2508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has two headquarter buildings in the UK, one at 22 Whitehall and the other at Abercrombie House in East Kilbride.</p><p>Both HQ buildings share a contract for facilities management. The staff contracted under this agreement are paid London Living wage in Whitehall and National Living wage in Abercrombie House. DFID covers the additional costs associated with the Living wage increases. This is reviewed annually in line with the increments set out by the Living Wage Foundation.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 20/01/2020 09:54:22 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1043131

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in her Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	209884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>DFID has 2 HQ buildings in the UK, one in East Kilbride and one in Whitehall. We have outsourced our requirement for total facilities management services to Interserve as part of an Affiliates Cluster arrangement managed by the Cabinet Office.</p><p>All cleaning, catering and security staff are paid the national living wage or above in our East Kilbride office and the London living wage or above in the Whitehall office.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/01/2019 17:17:07 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

759796

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many of her Department's staff had a pay increase (a) above, (b) at and (c) less than one per cent in each of the last three years for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>Information of the level of DFID staff’s pay increases over the last 3 years is included in the attached table. A pay deal for 2016 has not yet been concluded.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/09/2017 08:43:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name PQ 10309.docx title PQ 10309 table
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies